THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, August 7, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 217, 7 August 1939, Page 2

THE OPOTIKI NEWS Monday, August 7, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

3rd. crarie Practice. A City 3rd. grade practice will be held at the reserve to-jnerrow night at 7 o’clock. All players are asked to attend. Temperatures. Temperature* throughout' t-lie North Island at 9 a.m. on Saturday were: Auckland -17 degrees. Tauranga and Gisborne -15. Opotiki 40, Mast Cape 52, Napier 43. and Wellington 49. Public Notice. A noticb appears in our, advertising columns to-day. pointing out that Dr. A J. Mail is still continuing his practice in this district and has no intention of Jeaving Opotiki. Attack cn Press. During the course* ol his remarks at Saturday night’s public' meeting in tlie Parish Hall. Mr. A. G. Hultquist, M.P.. scathingly attacked the Opotiki Press. He called! lipon residents to keep the paper quiet and ill his coneluding lemarks used the words “the low Opetikti Press’’. Junior Representttivs Match. The Opotiki junior representatives will play the Rangitaiki representatives at 'J’e Toko at 2.39 p.m. on Saturday.. for tin* Shalloon Shield, at piosent held by ltangitaiki. The Opotiki team is as follows: —I’nil-hack, M. Clay; threequarters. SJieeran. Chambers. Beattie; live-eighths, King, Moore: half. Dcbreoon.v; forwards, 1C Hutt. J. Hutt. J. Hayes. well, Dennett, C. Ban. Bennett, Collicr. Finergeneies: hacks. Conner, Fleming; forwards. Ranapia. I’.. 4 ai.

Senior Representati jes. The soli' selector. .Mr. \\ . I . !>urrett. notifies plovers that the loom to meet Tauranga in the Shield gome next Saturdoy will he linally chosen from the following:—M. Le Pine. J. Walker. J. Starkey, C. \\ aJker, .McKenzie. J. Mihaere, R. Jones. X. Shalloon, G. Williams, j’. Farren. Jl. Ashdown. 1. Walker. Maui .Delamorc, Monita Delaniere, IP 'l'airua. H. Maunsell. I. W alker. JL. Walker. IJanapia. Albert. Practices will he hi'ld on Tuesday aigl Thursday on the reserve at 7.‘31.i : p.'hi. Trout Fry Released. Officers from the Department of Internal Affairs, with the assistance ol members freju the Opotiki l?od and Gun (.Hub. liberated; -110,000 trout try in the tributaries and upper reaches of the Waioekir. Wo i rata, Opato. Pakahi and Te Whaiti stjeams. The ova. which was secured Irom the Smith Island, were conveyed in eight lorry loads to the spots where they were released, the work occupying four days. The Department intends later to forward a quantity of rainbow . fry to hi' released in the upper reaches of the W aioeka river.